Giovanni Battista Zingoni (c.1718-1811) - Sinfonia in D-Dur (1766)

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Composer: Giovanni Battista Zingoni (c.1718-1811)
Work: Sinfonia (I, D-Dur) des 'Huits Simphonies a deux violons, taille et basse, deux hautbois et deux cornes de chasse' (1766)
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Andantino 3:06
3. Allegro assai 5:16

Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Zingoni,_Giovanni_Battista
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/z9yq6epr5h3hbkc/ZINGONI-SinfoniaI.xml/file

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Giovanni Battista Zingoni [Singoni, Zingone]
(Florence, c.1718 - Colliges [now Colligis], 21 April 1811)

Italian tenor and composer. He studied in Naples at the Conservatorio di S Maria della Pietà dei Turchini. In 1749 he competed unsuccessfully for the post of maestro di cappella of S Stefano (dei Cavalieri) in Pisa. Between 1751 and 1752 he was active in Savona as a singer and maestro di cappella, and he held the same post at S Ambrogio in Alassio between March 1753 and December 1754. From 1756 onwards his career as a singer and composer took him to a number of European cities. In 1759 he joined the opera company of the De Amicis family; in the autumn of 1760 his opera 'Zenobia' was performed in Amsterdam with Anna Lucia De Amicis in the title role. In 1762 the De Amicis company appeared, with Zingoni, in the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, where on 27 February of that year Zingoni's comic opera 'La creanza' was performed. From the end of 1762 until May 1763 he was in London, where he sang secondary roles at the Haymarket Theatre under the direction of Johann Christian Bach. From February 1764 he was in Holland as maestro di cappella, composer and singer to the House of Orange. Leopold Mozart, in Holland at the time, refers to him as the ‘princesses' teacher’ at The Hague between the end of 1765 and 1766. The latter year saw the publication of his eight symphonies, op.1, in Amsterdam. These symphonies are conventional and well-crafted pieces, produced in a period when the genre was undergoing considerable development. As well as being praised by Johann Adam Hiller and appearing in the Breitkopf sales catalogue, the Paris publisher Simon Le Duc obtained the rights to reprint them in 1767. Documents indicate that from 1764 to 1768 and from 1778 to 1781 Zingoni received a salary from the Dutch court, which became an annual pension from 1782 to 1810. From 1786 he was living in Colliges, a small town near Laon, where he died in 1811, at about the age of 91.